Thursday, February 21, 2008

Posting 3

Snowy Owls
Snowy Owls or Nyctea scandiaca are fascinating creatures. It is somewhat obivious how the snowy owl got its name, they are snow white in colour. Male snowy owls are for some reason whiter than the females and as they grow older, they get whiter still. The females however, are never completely white, they remain with brownish with darker markings throughout their lives. Snowy owls have excellent eyesight, but when its prey is hidden deep under the artic snow, it uses another sense for hunting, that sense is hearing. The most interesting part about a snowy owl is this, unlike most other owls whoch sleeps during the day and hunts at night, snowy owls are active during the day. They are most active during dawn and dusk. And they are somewhat espically active during summer.
Giant Pandas (NOT IN ANYWAY RELATED TO PANDA BABA)
Giant panda or panda is called 大熊猫 in chinese. Its scientific name is Ailuropoda melanoluceda. This creature is not only extremely rare but it is extremly picky. Pandas eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and leaves found in its natural habitat. Once in a while they get tired of their bamboo diet and eats other vegetation, fish or small animals. But bamboo is still their main diet having it acconting 99% of their entire diets. Pandas are amazing at eating, they eat fast, they eat alot and they spend tweleve hours doing it a day. Pandas are extremely shy and will not venture into human inhabitated areas.
Polar Bears
Polar Bears or Ursus maritimus like pandas focus their diet mainly on one thing, in this case, seals. You can see them hunting for seals on sea ice most of the times. When the sea ice melts they retret back to shore. Polar bears are somewhat of a half-ambush, half-straightout predators. Like crocodiles they wait silently for their prey but unlike crocodiles it sometimes will also hunt for its prey under the sea ice.
Bald Eagles
A bald eagle? Not this one even though its name somewhat says it's bald but actually if you are looking for a bald eagle go for valtures. This eagle's white feathers on its head may make it look bald but actually it is not. Bald actually came from an old english word 'balde' which means white. This eagle has been the national symbol of the United States for 226 years to date and it still is. Amazingly female bald eagles are bigger than males. Eagle nestes are called aeris (A-rees) and some eagles come back to their nests year after year adding more sticks, twigs and grass each time.
Tigers(Inclusive of Siberian, Bengal, and other species)
Tigers or Panthera tigris are the largest wild cat in the world. It is easily recongised by its coat of orange with black stripes. The predator usually hunts alone and it is able to bring down a deer or an antelope. Tigers like lions hunts at night. Tigers unlike most of the cat family seem to like water. They swim pretty well and usually can be seen chilling out not in pubs but in streams or rivers. Tigers stripes are like human fingerprints no two patterns are alike.

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